Battle of Fredericksburg...

Item # 700482

December 18, 1862

NEW YORK HERALD, December 18, 1862

* Battle of Fredericksburg aftermath
* General Ambrose E. Burnside

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "On The Rappahannock" "Special Dispatch From Gen. Burnside" "Astonishment of the Rebels at Our Recrossing the Rappahannock" "Flags of Truce & Burial of the Dead" "The Rebels Strengthening Their Defences" and more.
Eight pages, nice condition.

background: The aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg was a period of profound demoralization for the North and a chilling display of the war's mounting human cost. While General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia secured one of its most lopsided victories, the Union’s Army of the Potomac was left shattered, having suffered over 12,000 casualties—many of whom perished in futile waves against the stone wall at Marye’s Heights. The city itself sat in ruins, marking the first major instance of urban combat and subsequent large-scale looting by frustrated Federal troops. Politically, the disaster nearly toppled Abraham Lincoln’s administration; his own party turned against his cabinet, and the public's confidence in the war effort plummeted to an all-time low. This "valley of death" ultimately led to the dismissal of General Ambrose Burnside following the humiliating "Mud March," and it left a haunting legacy of thousands of wounded soldiers who had been left to freeze on the battlefield under a rare display of the Northern Lights, a sight many survivors viewed as a surreal, celestial omen of the carnage.